75%+ of Insurgents Foreigners

75% of so-called insurgents in Iraq are foreigners, according to the crawl on Fox News this morning.

That's the conservative estimate as evidenced by a report by Lisa Myers & the NBC Investigative Unit on MSNBC today:

An NBC News analysis of hundreds of foreign fighters who died in Iraq over the last two years reveals that a majority came from the same country as most of the 9/11 hijackers — Saudi Arabia.

Among the suicide bombers was Ahmed al-Ghamdi, a one-time medical student and son of a Saudi diplomat. In December 2004, he climbed into a truck in Mosul and blew himself up.

On an Internet video, another Saudi says goodbye to his mother, then drives an ambulance full of explosives into a building.

They are among more than 400 militants from 21 countries whose deaths were celebrated on Islamic Web sites over the last two years.

"By far the nationality that comes up over and over again is Saudi Arabia," says Evan Kohlmann, an NBC News terrorism expert. 

The NBC News analysis of Web site postings found that 55 percent of foreign insurgents came from Saudi Arabia, 13 percent from Syria, 9 percent from North Africa and 3 percent from Europe.

That adds up to: 55% + 13% + 9% + 3% = 80% by my count. Note that this information is not from a Bush supporter.

As I've written back in June, the term insurgent is not quite accurate. It refers to people rising up from within a population, not to those who enter another country to fight that country's citizens and allies on behalf of their own agenda. These so-called insurgents should be recognized as the invaders of Iraq that they are.

They are attempting to take over the land and government in Iraq in order to make a home base for their terrorist community to grow. These same extremist Muslims accuse the USA and its allies of trying to invade Iraq.

Our forces want to come home to resume their lives. Our government wants them to do just that, too. Just as soon as the Iraqis can govern themselves, police themselves and defend themselves from the terrorist forces that have invaded their land.

The USA does not want to occupy Iraq. The so-called insurgents from Saudi Arabia, Syria, North Africa, and Europe do. Where is the acknowledgement from the UN, and those who have not joined the allies in this fight, that Iraq's citizens need their support in order to save their country from invasion by neighboring terrorists?

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Source: Article by Lisa Myers & the NBC Investigative Unit
Fox News 2005-08-09